ArchivEye

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Description

ArchivEye is an offline PDF OCR tool developed to safeguard the privacy and confidentiality of sensitive documents.

This user-friendly GUI application is designed for professionals like lawyers, OSINT researchers, journalists, and others who often work with PDF documents.

ArchivEye's OCR technology enables users to search through scanned and non-searchable PDF files without uploading them to the cloud, offering added privacy and security.

The software prioritizes ease of use, allowing even those without technical expertise to navigate and use it smoothly. By offering a unified interface for searching and indexing multiple PDF documents within a folder, ArchivEye streamlines tasks such as opening numerous PDFs, reading, manual note-taking, and cross-referencing information, saving users valuable time.

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Installation

Prerequisites

ArchivEye requires Tesseract and GhostScript to be installed on your system.

Follow the steps below to install these third-party tools

Install Tesseract

Tesseract is an integral part of ArchivEye, providing powerful OCR capabilities that convert extracted individual pages into searchable text.

Download and install the latest version 5.3.1 from uni-mannheim

Install GhostScript

GhostScript is used to extract individual pages from the PDF file as images for Tesseract to OCR.

Go to this page and download and install gs10011w64.exe

Download ArchivEye

Simply go to the Release section of this Github page and download the .exe file, double click and it will install automatically

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Usage

First Time Setup

During the first-time setup, you will need to configure the tool by specifying the paths to the installed Tesseract and GhostScript tools. Use the Select buttons for Tesseract and GhostScript:

• For Tesseract, select the folder Tesseract-OCR

• For GhostScript, be sure to select the folder that is inside gs but not gs itself, in the time of releasing this version of ArchivEye, mine would be gs10.01.1

Don't worry if you accidentally select the wrong paths, the Validate & Proceed button will validate the paths to make sure the paths are correct before we start indexing PDFs. It will also automatically run both the Ghostscript and Tesseract binaries on a dummy PDF to make sure these third party tools are working as expected

Indexing

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Future Roadmap

• Make OCR index process faster
• Support more languages